UK decries ‘baseless’ spy charge as Russia expels diplomat

MOSCOW: Russia on Monday expelled a British diplomat it accused of espionage, a charge Britain rejected as “complete nonsense” while accusing the Kremlin of orchestrating an intimidation campaign against its embassy staff. Russia’s FSB security service, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said it had discovered that second secretary Albertus Gerhardus Janse van Rensburg was “carrying out intelligence and subversive activities that threaten the security of the Russian Federation”. The di...

By none@none.com (Agencies)

London criticizes Russia’s decision to expel British diplomat

The British Foreign Office criticized Russia’s decision to expel a British diplomat on suspicion of “spying.”